Discussion: Jeb's CPAC Problem

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Conservatives aren’t the only ones tired of the Bush Dynasty.

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“I like Walker because I didn’t go to college and he didn’t finish,” Manship told TPM.

Sounds like one hell of a good criteria to base something as inconsequential as a vote for POTUS on.

What next? I can guess…

“I like Baggerdrool cause I were home schoolt, never had no vaccynashons and done quit my larnin’ after eight grades to join teh circuzz,” Batshit told TPM.

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I like Walker ‘cause he is no college puke an’ that makes him a good pressdent… In other words Walker is ignorant just like the republican electorate.

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I like my doctor because I didn’t go to Medical School and he didn’t finish.

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Well, there it is!

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Old EstABLISHMent REPUBlicans doN’t EMBrace EITHER patriotism or a teabAG hanging from a TRICORn haT. BasICALLY LIBtards!1!!1!one!1!!!

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If Bush gets the nomination all these morans will still vote for him because stupid.

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The effect of the Iowa caucuses is overrated. McCain was 4th in 2008, Reagan was second in 1980 and Bush Sr was 3rd in 1988. Losing can kill you if you are short on cash, but Jeb won’t be. Also, walker is from a neighboring state, so if he wins there it will be discounted.

We fought wars so that there would no dynasties in the US. To bad that it likes it will be a battle for the Presidency between dynasties.

There have been political dynasties in the US since before there was a US.

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As we saw in 2008 and 2012, CPAC pleasers do not get the nomination. In the end it is Wall Street, Lake Shore Drive, and Palm Springs people with mansions who are most decidedly not Tea Baggers who decide who gets the nomination. Boos at a CPAC convention are not the worst thing a nominee could endure.

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Oy. Bush senior actually had a campaign event at a flag factory where he recited the Pledge of Allegiance and basically Red-baited Dukakis (“a card-carrying member of the ACLU!”), but someone who embraced that kind of disgusting crap isn’t real-patriotismy enough for them any more. But at least most of the nutbars are calling him an “establishment” Republican – I’ll go nuts myself if I hear one more pundit call him a moderate.

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Tired of the Bush dynasty but love them that Duck Dynasty.

ROTFLMAO

Stupid is as stupid does!

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There is something dissonant in all of this. Mr. Obama is an outstanding President, and his current rating (among some historians) as #18 will improve as time goes on.

The quesions, for the MSM and FOX are intertwined, divergent and similar.

The FOX task is to provide what the RNC needs, which includes misinformation, and enough Red Meat to stoke the base.

The MSM task is to take the reality of Mr. Obama’s extraordinary capabilities and make the upcoming election into a “horserace”, pitting the future Democratic candidate against a Republican Party which, to date, has not uttered a coherent policy statement since the November elections (actually, long before, but, you know…). In this altered reality, Mr. Obama is fair game for whatever datum of the President can be turned into a disadvantage to the Democratic candidate which evens out the Republican slate of candidates (in which the most mentally coherent candidate has a brother who in 2003 made the worst foreign policy blunder in U.S. history) and the Democrats.

Were there to have been a viable Fourth Estate, the choice available for President in 2016 (or 2008 and 2012, for that matter) would have been more stark than the one 80 years ago.

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Was it Dynasty day at CPUC? Did Alexis Carrington follow JEB?

The kids that got killed for nothing in the wrong country are pretty pissed off too and they REMEMBER the name of the guy who lied them over there.

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I swear I read that as “Duck Dynasty” the first time. Not far off though.

Luxury handbags lined with the Constitution?

Folks at The Onion have to feel threatened: reality is trumping fiction in absurdity.

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Yeah for a Republican the dynamics are different. If a Dem loses Iowa and New Hampshire, the he is toast. Or is it if a Dem wins both Iowa and New Hamsphire, then he stomps his way to the nomination?